Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
Release Info
Released May 1982.
Tracks
- No Not Now (05:50)
- Valley Girl (04:50)
- I Come From Nowhere (06:09)
- Drowning Witch (12:04)
- Envelopes (02:45)
- Teen-age Prostitute (02:43)
Players
- Frank Zappa - Lead Guitar, Vocals
- Steve Vai - Guitar
- Ray White - Rhythm Guitar & Vocals
- Tommy Mars - Keyboards
- Bobby Martin - Keyboards, Sax & Vocals
- Ed Mann - Percussion
- Scott Thunes - Bass
- Arthur Barrow - Bass
- Patrick O'Hearn - Bass
- Chad Wackerman - Drums
- Roy Estrada - Vocals
- Ike Willis - Vocals
- Bob Harris - Vocals
- Lisa Popeil - Vocals
- Moon Zappa - Vocal on Valley Girl
Background
...the title of the album is going to be Drowning Witch. A long time ago there was this guy called Roger Price who did this cartoon called Droodles and one of the pictures in the book was called "Drowning Witch." Right now we're in the process of trying to locate this guy to get permission to use the picture because this book came out in the '50s. I want to use the original picture.
Frank Zappa: Record Review magazine interview in 1982
Conceptual Continuity
Versions
| ZFT # | Version # | # discs | Format | Catalog # | Release (YYYY-MM-DD) |
EAN.UCC-13 (barcode) |
Artwork | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 1 Original Stereo |
1 | LP | Barking Pumpkin FW 38066 |
1982-05-03 | None | US edition. | |
| 1 | LP | CBS CBS 85804 |
None | UK edition. | ||||
| 1 | CD | EMI CDP 7-90074-2 |
Unknown | 0724379007421? | UK edition, coupled with The Man From Utopia. | |||
| 1 | CD | Barking Pumpkin D2 74235 |
1991 | 0013347423524? | US edition. | |||
| 1 | CS | Barking Pumpkin D4 74235 |
1991 | 0013347423548 | US edition. | |||
| 1 | CD | Zappa CDZAP 42 |
1991? | 5016583604226 | UK edition. | |||
| 1 | CS | Zappa TZAPPA 42 |
1991? | 5016583604240? | UK edition. | |||
| 1 | CD | Intercord i.r.s. 970742 |
German edition. | |||||
| 1 | CD | Rykodisc RCD 10537 |
1995-05-02 | 0014431053726 | US edition. Matrix # IFPI L502 IFPI 8732 DISCTRONICS RCD 10537 01 | |||
| 1 | CD | VideoArts VACK 5088 |
1995-06-25 | 4988112406858 | Japanese edition. | |||
| 1 | CD | VideoArts VACK 5223 |
1996-04-15? | 4988112408234 | Japanese edition. | |||
| 1 | CD | VideoArts VACK 1243 |
2002-05-29 | 4988112413283 | Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve. |
